Song, games, projects, and activities courtesy of Lisa King, all rights reserved. After these activities and projects are completed, take your preschool class on a nature hunt to look at some big oak trees and maybe find a few real acorns along the way. Your preschoolers will go “nutty” making these silly acorn projects and singing silly songs. When they are dry, children can put on a play starring their silly acorn people. When their clothespin people are finished, they will stand up. The clothespins are the acorn people’s legs. The children will glue on clothes cut-out of felt or color their clothespins with markers. The teacher will glue the acorn to the clothespins. Remind them to be creative, they may add glasses, mustaches, etc. Let them draw faces on their acorn with the markers below the caps. Give each child the materials listed above. Old-fashioned, wooden clothespins with springs that work.Acorns with caps (loose caps can be glued).Let student creativity and individuality come alive while creating silly acorn people. The students will match the cap to the correct color word on the acorn. Cut-out and laminate caps from different colored construction paper. Write a different color word on each acorn. Cut-out and laminate several acorns without the caps from tan construction paper. Preschool students will correctly identify color words while participating in the acorn cap match game. I’m a Little Acorn (sung to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot) Reinforce the life cycle of an oak tree with this acorn poem/song that is sure to make your kids smile. The children will place the correct number of acorns on their squirrel. Chant the poem “Squirrel, squirrel in the tree, how many acorns do you need?” The teacher will write a number word on the board. Give each child a laminated squirrel cut-out and several acorns. Children will learn number recognition and counting skills while playing the Feed the Squirrel game. Squirrels bury the acorns in the ground in the fall and dig them up in the winter. This makes a beautiful mosaic picture that can be framed. Place glue around the hand and sprinkle the green split peas to represent the leaves of the tree. Continue spreading the glue inside the tree trunk and branches, sprinkle with pieces of acorn caps and birdseed. Spread glue directly under the tree trunk and sprinkle green split peas (grass). Next, they will glue the acorn on the bottom of the tree trunk. The students will trace their arm and hand (oak tree) with the pencil on the black poster board. Tell children they are going to make an oak tree mosaic picture. After reading the book, discuss the life cycle of an oak tree. Ask children what they want to be when they grow up. He soon discovers that he has a very special purpose. He doesn’t think he is as important as other trees because he cannot produce fruit or flowers like his friends. The book is about a little acorn that fails to realize how lucky he is to have grown into a strong oak tree. Read the book, The Oak inside the Acorn by Max Lucado.
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